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“I don't respect these monsters but I weep anyway. I curl my fingers in so that my palms bleed, because I have been afraid of this whole entire life, of being a pretty little thing. being a pretty thing is a problem. no one wants you, not even the dead.”

Life Problem Respect Monsters Afraid Wants Apocryphal Pretty Little Thing Pretty Thing

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“… I am me, but am not me: I have spent my entire life & all of its suffering both as spectator & subject. a woman trapped eternally as a child waiting for the holy father. I look pretty but feel so young, standing on the curb sucking on the lemon of the sun.”

Young Suffering Woman Child Trapped Pretty Subject Spectator Apocryphal I Am Me

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“… I am born and born again. I am born to represent the white plain of redemption to fuck carefully siphoning the blood out of you. I am reconstructing my body to take in what you took out, and it fits.”

Body Born Redemption Born Again Represent Fits Apocryphal My Body

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“nostalgia will kill the good girl. the truth is you should not waste your time on being good.”

Truth Time Nostalgia Being Good Apocryphal The Good Girl

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“I don't want to be loved despite my history: I want absolution, someone to observe my fitting-into and growing-out-of, someone to watch my spine make the mannequin come to life.”

Life Loved Observe Absolution Mannequin Apocryphal Fitting Into Growing Out Of

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“I am afraid of photographs. I am ashamed they will show where I really come from. From particles of light, a slow holding of breath as if I were filling with dirt & I am, because where I come from is a place outside and it is not normal...”

Ashamed Afraid Place Outside Photographs Apocryphal Where I Come From Not Natural

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